Today 10 years ago I went to Poland to buy a Phone with pre installed #Firefox OS on. The Phone was a Alcatel One, so very shitty. Two years later I installed Firefox OS on my Nexus 5 instead.

It was a very good concept, but sadly rolled out on too shitty hardware so it never caught on.

  • Shatur@lemmy.mlEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    If you are still interesting in Linux phone, consider looking at PinePhone Pro. I would recommend it only for experience users and the phone experience is far from Android, but software is catching up. Check @linuxphones

    P.S. writing this comment from PPP :)

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Or SailfishOS! Has Android layer where apps can run seamlessly (without some hardware stuff support, like fingerprint etc.).

      • Shatur@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Want to mention that on GNU/Linux we also have Waydroid that provides Android app support :)

        • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I know about that, but from my experience nothing really compares to the ease of use of the SFOS AlienDalvik. Though something may have changed since I last checked (1.5 years ago).

          • Shatur@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            I mostly wrote it for other readers.

            Also used both, I would say they are similar. But Waydroid can’t forward notifications to the main OS as in Sailfish. Sad that AlienDalvik is not FOSS :(

    • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      How is PinePhone Pro now? It’s been over a year since its release and reading on reddit a few months ago it still seemed behind the original PinePhone. I would like to upgrade to the Pro version, but I’m worried it will be another year for it to be stable.

      • Shatur@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I think its on par with the original PP now. I also own PP and I would recommend to upgrade, performance is way better.

        But if you do, I would recommend to use megi’s u-boot fork to improve your battery life.

        • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          That’s cool! So there aren’t any issues with phone calls anymore? I think people complained about audio quality, but I guess my PinePhone also has some issues like that.

          But if you do, I would recommend to use megi’s u-boot fork to improve your battery life.

          Doesn’t everything use Tow-Boot now?

          • Shatur@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            No call issues at all, I daily drive it.

            Doesn’t everything use Tow-Boot now?

            Yes, but it’s a distribution of U-Boot and it some releases behind. Megi recently implemented many cool features for U-Boot for PPP and it will take time until they appear in Tow-Boot. So I would recommend to use provided binaries from Megi for now, see his blog for more details: https://xnux.eu/log/091.html.

    • jeanma@lemmy.ninjaEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I know about the PinePhone Pro and I am quite experienced.
      But even hardcore hairy dude like Drew Devault disavowed it (source).

      • Shatur@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It seems that the main complaint is calls and SMS. I use different distro (Arch, btw) with FOSS firmware for the modem and calls / SMS work fine for me.

      • Shatur@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        If you mean GNU/Linux - no. But you can buy a phone that supports Lineage OS. It’s Android distribution, so you will have everything you used to have on your phone and the OS will be fully FOSS.

        • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Thank you. This seems to be the best option at the moment. Right now I’m stuck on iPhone which I bought without realizing how restrictive their OS was. However I don’t have the budget or interest in buying a new device currently, so I’m just keeping an eye on my options.